ENGLEWOOD — The first hours of New Year’s Day turned violent in three separate instances throughout the city, the chief of police said Tuesday.

“After several years of having quiet New Year’s Eves, we had a busy night,” Chief Arthur O’Keefe said. “This is not an auspicious start to 2013.”

At 3:40 a.m., police received several reports of a fight on Belmont Street, but as officers were dispatched another call came in reporting gunshots.

When officers arrived several people were in the street and they told police the shooter had driven away in a white vehicle. The shooting occurred during a fight outside a New Year’s party, O’Keefe said. The chief could not say what started the fight.

Officers recovered shell casings on the street from a semiautomatic hand gun, which confirmed the reports, the chief said.

No one was hurt and no arrests were made.

About two hours later, emergency room staff at Englewood Hospital and Medical Center called police at 5:40 a.m. to say an Englewood man had walked in and had suffered a beating. The 32-year-old man told police he was accosted by at least eight men who beat him and stole his wallet and cellphone, the chief said.

He had cuts, scrapes and bruises and he made his way home. A family member drove him to the hospital.

The robbery took place on Tenafly Road near the intersection with Palisades Avenue, the chief said.

No arrests were made.

And at about 6:40 a.m., the hospital staff called again to report that a man had walked in to the hospital with stab wounds.

The 35-year-old man was stabbed six times in the chest and back, once in the head and slashed twice to the bone in an arm and shoulder. He’s expected to survive the attack, the chief said.

Earlier, the stabbing victim had been at a New Year’s party in Teaneck, and he told police that he recognized his attackers from the party.

The wounds were caused by a small knife and a straight razor, and police considered the attack an attempted murder. The attack occurred near the man’s house on Rock Creek Terrace, the chief said.

Investigators believe there was a fight before the stabbing, and another person was seriously injured in that altercation based on evidence collected at the scene, the chief said. O’Keefe did not elaborate on what evidence was collected from the scene.

The other injured person has not yet been identified, the chief said. No arrests were made in that attack.